The original instant gratification photography will soon be no more. Follow the link for some great Polariod TV ads of past.
“I greeted today’s news with an instinctive combination of shock, grief, and indignant fury: Polaroid has announced it’s ceasing production of its instant film, which will become unavailable after 2009. What will I do when I need more film my trusty Polaroid? What will all those people buying new Polaroids do?...I don’t really need to explain why the once-iconic Polaroid instant camera was rendered obsolete: When photography went digital in the late 1990s, all cameras became instant cameras in most respects that mattered. Poor Polaroid became an anachronism; thousands of people at the Cambridge, Massachusetts company that was an icon of my Boston-area youth lost their jobs.”
Link: PC World’s Techlog A Heartfelt, YouTube-Based Wake for Polaroid Instant Photography (pcworld.com)
